Starlight City (2020)

Starlight City When Black and his team are sent to investigate a foreign ship orbiting near the Harmonica space port they re killed onboard by a humanoid weapon built in the image of a beautiful woman Several years

Title: Starlight City

Author: Radford Lee

ISBN: -

Page: 422

Format: None

When Black and his team are sent to investigate a foreign ship orbiting near the Harmonica space port, they re killed onboard by a humanoid weapon built in the image of a beautiful woman Several years later, Black is reborn through a miracle of science on an unfamiliar planet called Neon He s mysteriously set free and flees to Starlight City

Published by Radford Lee

Radford Lee is a writing tutor and also teaches college composition courses He has worked as a volunteer tutor for an afterschool Student Fellowship program where he also conducted a Creative Writing workshop for local community students He hopes to continue building students reading and literacy skills and to cultivate talented young writers Radford lives with his beautiful family in Ohio.

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This was a great science fiction novel that introduces readers to a futuristic world where we can see the effects of major scientific breakthroughs on a society that still retains some semblance of our lives today The protagonist is Black When the story opens, Black is in Starlight City on the planet Neon Right away it is easy to see Black isn t a normal human He wears sunglasses all of the time to hide his unusual yellow colored eyes that may draw unwanted attention to him When he gets injured, [...]

Starlight City has my vote for the 2013 Philip K Dick award Too bad there isn t an indie category associated with that To wit This is an exceptional first novel Not only was it masterfully written, but its story line was so intensely interesting that I could not help but draw comparisons to the feeling I had upon first reading Richard K Morgan s Altered Carbon In his acknowledgements, Lee states that he was inspired by the penmanship and imaginations of great science fiction writers of our time [...]

Sci fi action at its best.We begin this story far in the future with Black and his stealth pod crew who are stationed on Harmonica, a spaceport city orbiting Earth s terra formed moon They are instructed to intercept an unresponsive spacecraft and inside they discover a beautiful but lethal humanoid woman.Then, we then leap forward in time to find Black, miraculously reborn on an unfamiliar planet called Neon and in a place called Starlight City Here where humans, robots and other combinations e [...]

Black has trouble remembering his life before battling a frighteningly beautiful android intent on killing him Bits and pieces of memories slip back through every once in a while, but staying alive and under the radar is his main objectiveuntil a faulty ID badge begins to attract attention and he goes in search of help His search lands him in the middle of a fight he wasn t expecting, but soon finds he can t walk away from The futuristic world of Starlight City was very well planned The details [...]

Good story and premise, but the pacing and structure were a little confusing I felt as if I were reading an outline that hadn t been fleshed out yet Even though character back stories were provided, I never really got to know any of the characters and their motivations were not clear enough to me I ll probably read the second book in the series because I really want to like these characters.